Complete Newbie...

Hiya, I'm completely new to burning movie files, and not that great at burning in general So, that said, I have too many movies on my harddrive and need to burn them onto CD's. I want to be able to watch them later. I found this site looking for tutorials and have read several (very helpful! I got TMPGEnc Plus), but now I don't know what to do. Which is the best option to choose for a movie? As far as I can tell, it is MPEG "Layer 3" (??), 101 minutes running time (700 MB), 23.976 frames/sec, and 464x256, 24 bits. I read through the options but didn't see one with a big enough resolution, or does this matter? Any help would be much appreciated!

Oh.. I have 700 MB blank CDr's up to 32x compatible, and I think my burning goes up to 8x. It's kinda old =^_^=

 

well always nice to have a newbie on and answer questions for ya..as far as the best setting it depends on what kind of movie and how many frames it is. If you are only going to watch them on your computer you can burn them out as a regular data cd. I take it you have avi's(divx) and if you want to convert them use this guide
http://www.afterdawn.com/articles/archive/divx_with_subtitles_to_vcd.cfm
Are you also looking for a certain setting or resolution?

 

I think I got it. The first time I read that tutorial, I missed paragraphs because the images were floating on top of the text. But I changed my screen resolution so now I can see it - lol.. I'm not too bright with these things, ok?? =^_^=

Yeah, I just want to watch them on my computer. I tried burning it with Nero, but the movie file was too big to fit on one disk. So I'm trying to make it smaller. I'm not sure what format it is... the details said "MPEG" but in TMPGEnc it says "avi". So. I guess so? I don't know what this all means

I'm not sure what size I want.. I just.. want to be able to play it on my computer from a CD and not loose any (if possible! or at least, not very much..) quality.

 

if you dont want to lose as much ...svcd. how big is the avi ?or mpg? sounds weird....is it a long movie? hum are you sure you have 700mb discs? humm it may be a little more then 700mbs you might want to try overburning by adjusting settings in nero (i dont have nero in front of me to go into detail...)if you do decide to encode it do it in svcd and use other settings in tmpgenc and split the movie .......(dont have tmpgenc to go into detail)...you are smarter then you think ....I'm sure you can do it. when I first came to this forum I thought encoding with nero was cool. =)

 

I think I'm burning it as svcd. Err.. or maybe just vcd. Is there a lot of difference in quality? How do I get my .avi file to be a mpeg2 instead of an mpeg1, or can I burn an svcd with an mpeg1? The movie is 101 minutes long. My CDs hold 700MB, but I think the movie is a bit more than that. That's why I need it off my harddrive so bad! =^_^=;;

What's overburning? Is that where you make it go into the yellow? I tried putting the movie onto a data CD just plain at first, and it went way over into the red. I'll probably end up splitting it onto 2 CD's.

 

Ack! I had a runtime error and it stopped converting. Now what do I do??

 

ohh I had a total brain fart you could use virtual dub and split the avi here is the guide on how to do it http://www.afterdawn.com/articles/archive/cut_avi_with_virtualdub.cfm

 

Neato! Thanks a bunch This looks much easier.

 

Ok, I split the movie, and it gave me a warning that the sound might be off. So I checked, and it was, so the program said that to avoid this I'd have to decompress it into WAV form and then recompress it. Help!! Is there an easy way to just stuff this thing on a disk and get it off my harddrive??

 

you could try this program its a free trial http://www.brizsoft.com/avisplit/
or try this avi chop o.2 http://screw.wz.cz/test/downloads.htm
these are your best bets i guess... once you find something that works it will be worth it!

 

I really just want to be able to play them again later on my PC. I don't even have a DVD player... and if I ever get one, I think I'd buy the DVD! =^_^=

 

I've tried that. Several times. The reason I came here looking how to compress or split a file is because the movie file is too big to fit onto one disk, even with 'overburning'. It's over 700 MB. And I don't have and CDr's with more than 700 MB.

 

Thank you, I'll try it

I should just buy this movie.... lol

 

It said "Error: Requested compression is not possible"

*sobs*

 

Okay, I'm going to assume that you know the files you are using are in fact .avi and are in divx format. I've been using virtual dub for a long time cutting up credits in my divx to reduce their size. It's always worked for me and I use http://nickyguides.digital-digest.com/join-split-avi.htm
Give this site a try. I also suggest that you have all your video/audio codecs installed. Ex. FHG Radium Codec (audio)

 

Um. What's a codec?